The Sun. — London, England, 1836-10-31 00:00:00

7.................. ......--- --...,.... .. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE *CLOCK Bank Stock. 206 \ India Stoet 3 per Cent. fled. 87%% Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons 88%% South Sea Stock — 3r% per Cent. —lold Annnities Ditto Red. 96 % % New Ditto B7M New 3% per Cent 97704 813 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 3 per Cent - i Exch. Bills, Xl,OOO 2 pm. par 2 pm Bank LongAnnuitiesto expire i Ditto 500 1 3 pm. Jan 5, !860 14% 11-16 IDitto Small Oct. 10, 1850 — t Ditto Commercial Jan. 5. 1860 14% 1 Mt° Advertised —pm Jan. 5, 1880-- — I Bank Stock for Account... ..... April 5, 1880.... ........... Jan. 5, 1870 — Consols for Acconnt B BN I Omnium pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds ___77l • Belgian Bonds IO2N Ditto Account ........ 13razilian Bonds 81% 1 Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chillian Bonds .....«....«...... Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, MA Ditto Account ....... — Danish Bonds 743( Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 139.5 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account Neal,olitan THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds 66 Ditto Account — Ditto New Bonds 56 1 4 5N Ditto Account 561 4 53 43 4 Ditto, 3 per cent. 3(N Prussian Bonds — Russian Bonds, 1822 — Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic.... ......... Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds,lKl4 193 20% Ditto Account 19%% French, 5 per cent.— .....105f. 50c. -- 4 per cent. —f. —c. per cent. —f. —c. Exchange 2SF. 40c. Dutch, 2V, per cent. 534 Ditto Account , 3 30 i Ditto, 5 per cent....... 'loo Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT CNE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Railway I 1 0; I Great Western Railway Company 3O ' 41 Brighton( Rennie's) South Eastern and Dover Railway Company 2 2%14 Mexican and South American 5 6V2 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN. OCTOBER 29. 3 per Cent. Consols 8730 IGrand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 8914 Ditto Reduced Ditto, 4 per cent - 34 per Cent. Stock 96% Hibernian Bank - I Ditto New, 1830 963 City of Dublin Steam C 0....... 11431 3 , 4 per Cent. Debentures 904 , National Insurance Co -- Bank Stock 20 3 3.; City Debentures, 4 per cent... - Royal Canal Stock 36 Ballast Office Debentures, 4 Grand Canal Stock 2B per cent - Arrived. Due 0 .merit i 0 0 Prazil 0 BuenasAyres._ 0 carthageria 0 2 Dublin... Ilanders MAILS. Arrived. - Due Arrived. Due 2 France 0 0 I ton 0 I Gtiorn.&Jersoy 0 0 Malta 1 Hamburg........ 0 Mexico 1 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0 0 Jamaica 0 I.eeward Islands 0 , 2 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. M0rning......... 6 minutes after 7. I Evening 33 minutes after 7. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " VIVIAN GREY." Nearly ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., ENILIETTA TEMPLE. A LOVE STORY. By the Author of " Vivian Grey." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THIRD EDITION. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., with 15 Illustrations, THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JONATHAN JEFFERSON WHITLAW; OR, SCENES ON THE MISSISSIPPI. By MRS. TROLLOPE. Author of " Domestic Manners of the Americans," " Paris and the Parisians in 1835," See. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NOTICE ! 1i,.-VVAL AND MILITARY OFFICERS ; AND THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL, Are respectfully informed that Mr. COLBURN, the Proprietor o: '‘ THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL," Has actively re-commenced business as a Publisher, at No. 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET. All MANUSCRIPTS, NARRATIVES of VOYAGES, TRAVELS, &c., therefore, intended for publication by him, are in future requested to be forwarded to the above address. HAMBURG, SEPT. 28, 1836. OUR Friends, and all those who may have to writ to us, are requested to be particular in directing, FiEINE'BTIOTIIF.R . S, in HAAIBURGII, and to observe, that a letter with one inclosure doubles the Postage only, but several inclosures would by far increase the same. Thus :20/., or 801., for instance, if remitted in One Bank of Eng land Note would only cause double Postage, but 10/. remitted in to n notes, would be liable to a much higher charge. It is there fort most advisable. for any Person having to romit Money to I-lam inas:6i, to forward the amount in One Note; or having to receive Money from Ilamburg;ll, to receive the same in One Note, when ever possible. Of course remittances from Hamburgh to England, surpassing the usual amount of One Bank of England Note, may rather be made in Bills of Exchange, on London. To save expenses that may as well be avoided, we request our Cot respondents not to overlook these particulars. HEINE BROTHERS. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A newspaper addressed to the Editor wis presented at the Office this morning with the charge of 17s. 6d. postage on it, the paper being " marked ,for reference." It was re turned unopened to the Post Office. In cases I,vbere our Correspondents wish to draw attention to any particular fact in the provincial newspapers, a letter should be addressed to the Editor accompanying the newspaper. The publication (V' THs SUN NEW4PAPER commenced this dal; at 10 minutes past Three o'clock. .0,...7.-c„.• , '-'-1-j;;',4*/ (---,-..../ e• 1,.. 'r A Z)• • 11l Ir , 1 I'l 5-- + -...-..,. N„ ii ~), _ LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 31, 1836. The Paris papers of Friday and Saturday have all been received. In the Moniteur of Friday, we find the following official intelligence :—" Government has received from Bayonne, under date of the 25th of Oc tober, 7 o'clock in the evening, intelligence that the operations of the Carlists before Bilbca had com menced. EGUIA commanded them. He was at Du rango on the 22d, with the artillery, and VILLAREAL at Zornosa, with three divisions, to cover those opera tions." This communication is followed up by the publication of a telegraphic despatch from Bayonne, dated the 27th inst., in the Monileur of Saturday, announcing that on the 24th the Carlists invested Bilboa at three several points ; raised two batteries to play upon the town ; and that the cannonade com menced early on the 25th. The Messager estimates the number of the besiegers at 8,000 men, and twenty six pieces of artillery, of which only twelve carry heavy metal. The city is defended by a Spanish garrison of 3,000 men under SANTOS SAN MIGUEL, brother of the Captain-General of that name, and a reinforcement of nearly 5,000 English from San Sebastian. The town itself is fortified by two strong enclosures of field works ; and since the last siege, our gallant country men erected works at Desierto and Deusto, so as to make sure of a free communication by means of the river. Bilboa is therefore out of all danger, however great may be the forces the Carlists can bring against it. We are not entirely free from apprehensions with respect to the strength of the garrison at San Sebastian. The attack on Bilboa may be only a feint to weaken the troops under General EVANS, and so facilitate the prospect of a succ ess f u l attac k on the Br i t i sh l i nes. This opinion is strengthened by letters from Bayonne, dated the 25th inst., which state that such was the con viction entertained by the Christino s in that city. We are however gratified to learn from the same source that General EVANS is prepared for the worst, and that he actually suspects VILLAREAL to be concealed some where in the neighbourhood, ready to pounce upon the town at a moment's notice. Lord Join* HAY has sent the Pearl to Bilboa, and several other war steamers were ready to resist the Carlists the moment an attack would be made on the first line of fortifica- tions. Since the disbanding of the French Legion at Pau, most of the men and officers have gone over to the Carlists. This did not happen without the connivance am.. l concurrence of the French Government. The hero of Arlaban, CORDOVA, is daily honoured with n.iarks of Lours PHILIPPE'S confidence and friendship. His MAJESTY could not take a more effectual why of convincing the QUEEN'S Government of the duplicity of his professions of friendship. Madrid journals to the 23d inst. inclusive have been received. On the 19th, General LAIX was at ,Baylen, whence he addressed despatches to the Minis ttr of War, stating that Gomriz had abandoned Cor dova, flying in the direction of La Mancha on the 14th ; that his intention was to proceed to Anjudar by Famcaliente ; that on the 16th,GomEz marched in the direction of Villanueva de la Jura; that about the same time General Rolm, with his division was at Vozoblanco ; and that at the date of these de spg.tches, ALAIX himself had ordered corps of observa tion to advance from Andnjar to Fuencaliente, and from \..larolina in the same direction, himself remaining at Bayl tp, so as to be able to march with greater faci- lity to any given point to intercept the flight of the enemy. He also states that on entering Cordova on 14th, he overtook the rear of GONIEZ'S division, seized too hundred muskets, a number of horses, and released a multitude of prisoners and conscripts. If he did so much, it may well excite surprise that he so signally failed in doing more. But if, as he stated himself in his despatch to the Captain-General of Granada, which appeared in The Sun of Saturday, he would have " annihilated" the rebels, had he reached Cordova only three hours sooner, why did he not pursue and overtake them ? He was nei ther encumbered with heavy baggage nor prisoners ; three hours' march was therefore of no consequence, especially as the rear of GoMEz ' s troops had not passed the gates on one side when he entered the city on the other. By delaying at Cordova, he sold an opportunity for obtaining a signal victory over the re bels. Here we have treason or incapacity fully evi denced in the conduct of ALAIX. Again, what keeps him now at Baylen ? The reason which he assigns for remaining there is ridiculous. GOMEZ has already cut off all communication between himself and Ro- DIL, and what more than all proves the inca pacity of the QUEEN'S Generals, it is only now discovered that the way into Estremadura is open, and that he has every chance of escaping there, without losing any valuable portion of his plun der. It is true that he has already been obliged to part with the great bulk of his prisoners and his heavy baggage ; but the money and plate which he amassed in his expedition is still safe, and he has be sides nearly four thousand voluntary conscripts, whose knowledge of the country is of the greatest possible service to him. The Secretary for the War Department has ad dressed a Royal Order, dated the 17th inst. to the Captain-General of Old Castile, appointing him to the command of the division lately under the command of General PEON, whose deposition by his troops, in consequence of his treachery in the pursuit of SANz, at Reynosa and Oviedo, was reported in this Journal of Saturday. A second Royal Order, dated the 19th, directs the arrest of PEON, and that he shall be con ducted to the citadel of Segovia, there to be tried by court-martial, Colonel LORENZO BAGGIERO being appointed to act as Fiscal of the Court. We need not here insist upon the fact, that we attri bute the long continuance of the civil war in Spain, the successes that have hitherto attended the Carlist expeditions, the disorders that have reflected so much discredit upon the QUEEN'S Government, and most of the savage outrages that have occurred during the two last year 3, to the ignorance, cowardice, and trea chery, of the Spanish Generals. A more contemptible set of officers never wore uniform. The army, to be made efficient, must be purged of them. One half of them are fit for nothing but the chimnev-corner, and of the other half two-thirds are mere adventurers, without three scruples of either honour or honesty. The Spanish common soldiers are really fine fellows, and would fight nobly, had they men capable of leading them to victory ; but they are duped and betrayed by Ge nerals too worthless to be entrusted with the command of a corporal's guard. One of the most extraordinary incidents mentioned in the Madrid journals is the concealment of General Room in Madrid. In the Castellano we actually find it stated that the Minister of War is at present in his residence in the capital, and that he has lain concealed there during the whole time it was thought that he was at the head of a division of the army to intercept the escape of GomEz. The Spanish Ge nerals are certainly a most valiant race. We need no longer wonder at the success of the Carlists, where they have not to contend with our brave countrymen. The Cortes were to meet on the 24th. On the 22d, nearly two hundred deputies had arrived in the capital. Senor GOMEZ BERCERA was appointed President of the Chamber, and Senor GONZALEZ Vice-President. The four Secretaries are Senors SALVA, HUELES, BOZA, and LUJAN. The QUEEN was in excellent health, and very po. pular. Her MAJESTY was to open the Cortez it Person. Dutch and German Papers have just been received. On Wednesday last the King of HOLLAND received the Address of the States-General in answer to the Speech from the Throne. Both the address and the KING'S answer breathe a spirit of unanimity and con ciliation. A second Meeting of the Spanish Bondholders in Paris took place on Friday, on the Bourse. The Committee appointed to draw up the petition to hs Majesty the King of the FREscii produced the docu ment as drawn up by M. ARNOULT. It ran thus : " SIRE—The financial measures adopted by Spain, in 1834, respecting her foreign debt, would have annihilated for ever her credit in France, if the treaty of the quadruple alliance had not reassured her capitalists. " Sire, the influence which that treaty secured to your Ma jesty over the future destinies of Spain, the declarations pub lished by your Government, that said treaty should be strictly executed, and the intimate conviction of the French capitalists that their rights would never be abandoned by you, inspired them with confidence, and they came to the relief of a royalty your Majesty had sworn to maintain. " Spain, under a Constitutional Government, cannot want for resources to meet her engagements. Her extensive re venues, and the immense national property she has at her dis posal, enable her not only to pay exactly the interest of her debt, but also to redeem it altogether in a short space of time. The capitalists, consequently, had only to dread the mo mentary troubles occasioned by the efforts of the Pretender. But those efforts could not avail if the means the quadruple alliance possessed to paralyze them were brought into action. The French capitalists accordingly had little or nothing to fear. " Nevertheless, a civil war, which it would have been so easy to stifle at its onset, has by degrees acquired such strength that the Spanish Government was under the necessity of applying all its pecuniary resources to its own defence. It has suspended the payment of the dividend of November, and thus reduced to misery an immense number of small capi talists. " Sire, these capitalists address themselves to your Ma jesty as the source of all grace and power. They refrain from reminding your Majesty, that so long as overt acts have proved that the treaty of the quadruple alliance would be exe cuted, Spanish credit maintained itself. You know it, Sire. But they entreat your Majesty to rest convinced that it was only on the faith of that treaty they ♦ested their capitals in the Spanish stocks; this assurance, they trust, will suffice, convinced as they are of the deep interest your Majesty feels for their situation. " The maintenance of a constitutional Government in Spain, the termination of a civil war, which, at the same time that it de solates that country, keeps all the passions of Europe in a state of ferment, would re-assure the holders of the Spanish debt, who would soon obtain, in payment of the dividend due, something better than bills on the island of Cuba. " Such is, Sire, the confident hope of the French capitalists. If your Majesty deigns to interfere on their behalf, their hopes will be shortly realized. " In that expectation the undersigned capitalists have the honour to remain, with the most profound respect, your Ma jesty's most humble and obedient servants. "yaris, October 28, 1836." -- The majority of the bondholders approved of the petition ; it was put to the vote, and adopted without delay. A deputation was then named to present it to the KING. The following resolutions; in the form of a Protest, Were rea d d isp a e n r d sed a . d — opted unanimously, after which the meetin g gned holders . of the active debt of Spain pro test" The undersigned against the mode t o h f e p r a e y v i e ng the dividend due on the Ist of November in bills en , until Government, preferring revenues of the island of Cuba, pro posed by the agents of the to wait, in order to be paid o d f able to meet its bettere dividend due. that Govern men t b e pl ace d in more favourable circumstances, and engagements, an d effect the payment ~ Th e no n-payment of the dividend of the l l stofNov a e s in th b e e y r appeared to the und ersi g ned th e more unaccountable, Madrid. debt, due r have been informed that the int erests of the on the Ist October, were re g ul arly paid in consider it extremely unfair t o establis h such a adistinctionincontes did.Thybee_ tween the creditors of the same S tate, who have an tible right to be placed on an equal footing. " Paris, Oct. 28, 1836." We may judge of the desperate state in which the Tories really consider their affairs to be, notwithstand ing the swaggering tone they assume, from the strains of exultation which burst from their public organs, when they have to announce any thing above the rank of a pothouse meeting of their friends. If a hundred Tories, drawn and driven together from all parts of a county by the most urgent entreaties, and not unfre quently by the same intimidating process by which they are dragged to the poll, can get up a dinner at the principal inn of the principal town, it is an event which sets every Tory cock a crowing louder than the loudest note of chanticleer. Then the whole po litical aspect of the world is suddenly changed, and nothing less than the immediate fall of the MEL BOURNE administration is prognosticated as the ine vitable consequence of the re-action which is so clearly demonstrated by vollies of nonsense and ribaldry dis charged in the aggregate, after the same nonsense and ribaldry have been twenty times before spurted forth " in sundry parts." We have a beautiful example of this species of boastful and ludicrous exaggeration in the accounts which the Tory journals give of a dinner concern at Norwich, at which there was rather more than the average attendance of guests, owing, as we have said before, to the unscrupulous means used to bring them up. Lord STORMONT, however, was a& .sent. No doubt he had mistaken the day—as Lord EASTNOR did, when he was to have taken the Chair at the Kidderminster feed the other day ; or does the Noble Lord begin to perceive that it is all up with him at Norwich, and think it prudent to look out for a snuggery in the North ? A few others, it is added, were also absent, who ought to have been there ; but, as if to make up for this lukewarmness on the part of those who were absent, we are favoured with a list of names, the great majority of which were never, we will venture to say, seen in print before. To the surprise of these worthy persons we are sure, they find themselves dubbed Esquires. We should like to . to know if this is the title conferred upon them, when they appear cap in hand before the Squire or his Lord ship's Steward to plead for an abatement of rent. At this Meeting, so constituted, presided my Lord ORFORD, a pert, shallow, chattering, simpleton ; but all the better qualified on these accounts for the posi tion which he occupied. He is, we believe, a descen dant of the great father of corruption, the notorious Sir ROBERT WALPOLE, of whom POPE, who knew him well, remarked that he never but once in his life— " Smiled without art, or won without a bribe." This scion of an ignoble stock, when his health was drunk, declared that he owed the meeting an unspeaka ble debt of gratitude for patronising him. " What I am" said he " it is fair to say you have made me." Now no one can cast a glance at the speeches put into the mouth of this personage without being convinced that he made an ass of himself, and because the meet ing was chiefly instrumental in this, we confess not very difficult process, my Lord ORFORD cannot find words to express his gratitude ! Next to the Chairman, figured the Lord Lieu tenant of the county, Loid WODEHOUSE. The scurrilous abuse, not unmixed with venom, which this person poured out against his masters, the King's Ministers, is no in other way remarkable than as coming from an official, and we arre almost inclined to say that the Whig Government is rightly served when it meets with such insults. One of its great errors has been keeping in it. service a set of men asLordsLicutenant of counties,whowere placed there for no other purpose than to keep down Liberal prin ciples, and give a Tory tone to the society at the head of which they stood. Every one of these men ought to have been dismissed. They and all the Tory ma chinery with which they were connected should have been completely cleared out, and replaced by men on whose support and influence a liberal Ministry could rely. At all events, Lord WODEHOUSE must be discarded. If this man be allowed to retain his office, Lord MEL BOURNE will incur and deserve the contempt of every Reformer in the kingdom. THE FUNDS.-(THIS I)AY.) CITY, 7'll'EL - dB O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are two French, the Ostend, Dutch, and Hamburg mails ; and ship letters from Quebec, Tobago, Hudson's Bay, and Rio Janeiro. THE FUNDS. On Saturday last the chief operations at the Stock Ex change were in Exchequer Bills. The Bank were selling these at 2d., and Government buying those of three half pence. The Bank was desirous to contract the circulation, and Government to prevent the Bills of a lower denomina tion from falling to a large discount, and being paid in for duties. It appears that the private Banks have reduced the aggregate amount of their circulation in the sum of 849,3081.: but the Joint Stock Banks have conjointly ex tended their shares in the amount of 381,057/. Discounts continue much in the same state as last week. Consols opened this morning at the closing prices of Saturday, 88i for the Account, and the same for Money ; Exchequer Bills, 1 3 ; India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stock, 2051 206 ; India Stock, 256 257. In the Foreign market Spanish Active may be quoted at 201 ; Passive, 51 ;1; Deferred, 8-1- ; Portuguese, 55 56-1 ; Three per Cents., 36-,i t ; Colombian, 223- ; Mexican, 22i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent., 531 The Memorial des Pyrenees assures us that the several diplomatic agents who have left Madrid have received orders from their various Courts to assemble at Pau, there to wait further orders. It is also stated that a Congress will take place" in a short time to discuss the affairs of Spain. A manifesto has been published at Paris of a curious description by the ex-Minister Isturiz, and measures have been taken to prevent it entering Spain. HALP-PAST ONE. We learn from a respectable quarter that accounts have been received from Madrid, stating that negotiations were on the tapis between our Ambassador there and the French, to put an end to the destructive war in Spain, with the agents of Don Carlos. It is stated that the proposals are for the young Queen of Spain to marry the son of Don Carlos, after which he is to leave Spain ; the latter he does not wish to comply with, which is the great obstacle of bringing the negociation to a final issue. Don Carlos is very anxi ous to have a part in the Regency. _ Consols may be quoted at 88 i f for the Account, with very little doing. Exchequer Bills, lid. par ; 2d., 2 prem. ; India Bonds, 4 3 prem. ; Bank Stock, 206 ; India Stock, 256 257. In the Foreign Market it is settling day, and at present the Account is going off well, no defaulters having been de clared ; upon the whole the settlement is not ofan exten sive description. Spanish Active, 19i 20i ; Passive,:h ; the Cuba Dividend Debentures are about 26i, being at 74 discount ; Portuguese, 55i i ; Three per Cents., 361; Co lombian, 22i ; Mexican, 22i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53i i. BELGIAN F UNDS—Bausens, OCT. 29. Actual Debt, '2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOO Loan of Thirty Millions 92N Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent lOO Society of Commerce, 4 yi per Cent. 143 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 124 —Brussels Papers, Oct. 30. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. 21. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1342 —4ll Cenieine Zeitung, Oct. 28. Very little business is doing in either of the Markets. TIMER O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, Bsl i. Yesterday forenoon a numerous flock of wild geese, forming a semicircle, were observed flying over St. James's Park towards the south, w hi c h is considered as indicative of a severe winter. Between the hours of nine and ten o'clock on Satur day morning the followin g d rea df u l acc id ent occurred at a house now building in Clarence-place, Regent's Park : Mr. William James, foreman to Mr. Newman, of Albany street, architect and builder, was superintending the fixture of some massive ornaments on the upper story, and, whilst standing on the scaffolding, one of the pulleys supporting the planking having slippod from its hold on the wall, gave way, and Mr. James was precipitated to th e b asement fl oor i ng , and fell with tremendous violence upon some fl ag -stones, placed endways, from a height . of about fifty f ee t. I n f a lli ng , Mr. James came across an iron . girder with suc h f orce t h at he bounded up off it, and then f!ll the remaining distance to the ground. He was taken up in a dreadfully injured state, and instantly conveyed to the hospital, where it was ascer tained that the unfortunate man had fractured, in a most extensive and serious manner, his breast bone, and also dis located several of his ribs. He had likewise sustained a violent concussion of the brain, and his death was momen tarily expected. Mr. James has a wife and large family. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1836. WESTMINSTER REGISTRATION. (Before Mr. AITLNE. ) ST. ANNes SOHO. There were two claims which were allowed. There were no objections, and the list.was pared. ST. CLEMENT DANE'S. There were 14 claims, and 27 objections, which were of no interest to the public. ST. PAUL'S COVENT eARDEN. There was only one claim in this parish, which was ad mitted. There were no objections. The list was signed and passed. SAVOY PRECINCTS. There was one claim on this list. The claimant did not appear, but the Learned Barrister gave him till to morrow to make out his case. The list afterwards was passed. ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS. On the list for this parish the names of 88 proprietors of Exeter Hall appeared as claimants. The first name was that of Mr. Adney, for whom Mr. Grane, also a proprietor and solicitor to the Company, ap peared. Mr. Grane said he hoped this year to make out to the satisfaction of the Barrister that the present claimants had a right to appear either on the householders' list or on the scot and lot one. Mr. CRAIG said the claim sent in was for a house called Exeter Hall; that might give them a right to be put on the householders' list ; there was no claim to be put on the scot and lot list. Mr. Grane had thought the claim might have been con strued otherwise, but he would not contend the point, for he was confident of making out his case for the other list. He relied upon the 29th section of the Reform Act, and he was now in a situation to prove all that wag required by it. There were 182 proprietors of Exeter Hall, two of whom were peers, and 27 ladies. He had, however, been careful to claim only on behalf of those who had a perfect case, the whole of the 88 claimants resided in the city of Westmin ster, or within seven miles of it. The erection of the building cost 28,2501. The building was let out, but the proprietors retained two rooms for their own use, to which all the proprietors had full and free access. The servants of the directors were constantly on the premises. When the building was shut up they retained the keys. No one slept on the premises, but there were watchmen within all night. He contended that that was such an occupation as owners of the property, as satisfied the wording of the act of Parliament. He contended further that the case was similar to that of the Judges' Chambers in Sergeant's Inn, where it was held to be good occupation, though no one slept on the premises, and the chambers were only occupied for a few hours in the day. After hearing the case for the claimants, at great length, Mr. CRAIG said he would give the case his best and most anxious consideration, and deferred judgment. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAT.) OLD COURT. Thomas Cooper was convicted of knowingly uttering a counterfeit half-crown, and sentenced to one year's impri sonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. John Halt and George Docking were indicted with uttering two counterfeit sixpences to a Mr. Beckenham, who keeps a public-house in Wilde-street, Lincoln's Inn fields, on the 27th of September last. The Jury found both prisoners Guilty, and The RECORDER sentenced them to one year's imprison ment and hard labour, the last week to be spent in solitary confinement. The Learned Judge warned the prisoners to be careful how they committed the offence again, for if they did they would certainly be transported for life. William Forbes and Thomas Taylor were indicted for ut tering, knowing it to be bad, a counterfeit crown piece, with intent to defraud Mr. Austin, who keeps the White Hart, Abchurch-lane. The Jury convicted both the prisoners, and the Courl passed a similar sentence upon them to the last case. The sessions will terminate to-day. NEW COURT. Phillip Francis Head and IVillianz Burrows, the captain and mate of a merchant vessel, were indicted for assaulting Frederick Watson upon the high seas. Mr. CLARKSON appeared for the prosecution and Mr. BODKIN for the defence. The Counsel upon both sides having conferred for a short time together, Mr. Clarkson stated to the Court that an amicable arrangement had been made between the parties, out of Court, and the prosecutor expressed himself satisfied. _ _ . The COMMON SERGEANT observed that in cases of com mon assault the Court had no desire to prevent an ar rangement being come to. The Jury then acquitted the defendants. Hagee Super Alder, an intelligent looking young Per sian, who was in the Oriental costume, was indicted for an attempt to commit a capital offence upon Sarah Gardener, a child between eight and nine years old. There was also a count for a common assault. After a very lengthened investigation, the details o which are unfit for publication, the Jury acquitt ed the de. fendant. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, OCT. S9. —Wind S. S.W. to N. N. E.—Sailed this morning the homeward-bound for the river. Arrived and re main in the Downs the Commerce, Backam, from Lisbon ; Prince of Wales, Baker, from Hudson's Bay ; Sancho Panza, Jones, from Vostizza ; and Pole (tender), —, from Oporto. Oct. 30.—Wind N.N. E. to S. E.—Arrived from the river and proceeded the Barclay, Man, for Grenada; Robert Headel, Graves, for Cape Coast : Mercy, Beasley, for Bar badoes ; Armata, Hudson, for Demerara; Protector, Davison, for Mauritius ; Apollo, Milne, for Grenada ; and Mary Laing, Sharer, for Honduras. Arrived and remain in the Downs the Claret, Headberry, from Bordeaux ; Frederick, Brown, from Sierra Leone ; and Triton, Cornell, from Belfast. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 29.—Wind N. to N.N. W., squally. Oct. 30.—Wind N. to E.—Sailed the Lady Emily, Hippen stall, for Malta ; and Norfolk, Gatenby, for Sydney, New South Wales. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 29.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Dew drop, —, from Labrador. Sailed , the Lord of the Isles, Hicks, for Gibraltar. FALMOUTH, OCT. 29.—Wind S. W. to S. S. E.—Arrived the Caroline, Pratt, from Bahia. Sailed the Gulf of Persia, for Lisbon ; and Transit Packet, Wrightson, for Oporto, Lisbon, and Cadiz. DOVER, OCT. 30.—Arrived, Ellen, Wilson, from Water ford ; Spread Eagle, Phillips, from Newry. DARTMOUTH, OCT. 29.—Arrived the Frederick Wilhelmina 111., —, from Baltimore; Challenger, —, from Smyrna ; Aiwa, Abbot, from Faro. PADSTOW, OCT. 30.—Superior, Lakeman, from Quebec. The Friends, from St. Domingo, went to pie ces on Corne vary Bar on the 29th inst., the master and seven men saved. The Mary, Magrath, was on shore near the Red Nose, and half full of water, the 28th inst. The Ellen, from Wexford, was on shore near Red Wall Bay, the 29th inst. The Jessey, from Swansea, was ashore on Wharf Bank the 29th inst. The Countess of Casselis, Harrison, from Blythe, had ar rived at Liverpool with assistance, with six fish. The Isacks, Sticks, from - to Newry, has put back leaky. The Hoffnung, from Liverpool, has been carried into Scal loway with pumps choked, bound to Memel. The Catherine, Hicks, bound to Swansea, struck the Shag Rock near Falmouth on the 27th, and sunk. The Catherine, Adamson, for Shields, and the Avelines from Wisbeach, were on shore near Fibel on the 29th inst. The Venus, Havrksford, from Boston to Aberdeen, was on shore near Bridlington on the 29th inst. The Sarah Maria,_ Christopherson, from Leith, was on the Herds on the 27th inst. The Henry and James, from Ipswich, is onshore. The Progress, Humphries, from Wisbeach, was driven on shore near Bade on the 28th inst., crew saved, cargo dis charged in a damaged 'tate. The Clara Maria, Dick, from Newcastle to Amsterdam, is on shore near the Texel. The Imperial, Spencer, from London, has arrived at Dantzig with loss of foremast, &c., having been in contact with a vessel. WEATHER.—During the last week the weather has in general been mild and favourable for such agriculturists as had not previously finished their harvest operations. Scarcely a drop of rain has fallen ; and in this neighbour hood all the crops have now been secured. Though they are as everywhere else, with very few exceptions, deficient in quantity, yet the prices which are now realized, and which are still:rising, may in some measure counterbalance the dis advantage. On Wednesday afternoon and during Thursday it blew a strong keen gale ; but the wind has fallen to-day, and the weather continues "kindly but frosty." Since our first edition was thrown off, the weather has changed to a violent storm of snow, which is now lying at a consider able depth.--Berwick Adertiser of Saturday. It is singular, but true, that the . late gales did not extend far to the westward. Two West Indiamen wire spoken with yesterday (Thursday) about seven leagues off the island, which had performed the voyage with all sails set (including royals), having experienced the most favour able weather.-- West Briton. A travelling tinker residing in Barnesley had the misfortune, the other day, to break his wooden leg. An old one lying in the cellar of his house, be sent his wife to fetch it, and burnish it up ; and as she was doing this out tum bled five sovereigns, which had been nicely deposited in a small hole in the top part of the leg. The tinker was for some time confounded, until at last he recollected that, about six years ago, he was at Penistone late in the even ing, rather tipsy, and for fear of being robbed he concealed the sovereigns in the place abovementioned, forgetting of terwards what had become of them.—Halifax Express. LITERATURE. THE GREAT METROPOLIS. 2 VoLs. Saunders and Odey. London. The work before us is the production of a writer well and favourably known to the public by his " Random Recollections" of the Houses of Lords and Commons, both of which, if we mistake not, went through two or three editions. The present volumes are likely to be equally successful, for they discuss themes of ge neral, indeed we might almost say of European , in terest, in a light, good-humoured, gossiping spirit, without unduly taxing the reader's patience, or demand ing any severe exercise of thought. The author seldom or never goes deep into his subject ; for the most part, he contents himself with just skimming its surface, especially in his details of the domestic habits of the aristocratic circles, which are evidently the results of hear-say, not of personal experience. He assures us, for instance, and in pretty broad terms too, that the the higher classes are all radically vicious ; that honour with them is purely a thing of convention, and honesty fairly laughed to scorn. Now this, though true of many, is by no means so of the generality of the mem bers of the aristocratic circle. They are not a whit worse than their inferiors, and when the extraordinary temptations to which the accidents of their birth, for tune, and position in society daily subject them are taken into consideration, the wonder is—not that they are so depraved—but that they are so exemplary in the fulfilment of their social duties. It is not because we have a few raffish Lords, who are a disgrace to their rank, and repudiated as such, that the whole fraternity is to be proscribed. We have no more right to visit the sins of the titled few on the titled many, than we have to call the whole legal fraternity to account, be cause a few unworthy members may be found among them. We protest therefore—though no great ad mirers of aristocracy—against our author's wholesale condemnation of the higher classes, who, taken en masse, are neither better nor worse than the rest of the social community. The great generators of vice in the metropolis, next to poverty, are, first, wealth ; secondly, want of occupation ; and we are yet to learn that idle ness and fortune are confined exclusively to the Peer age. In his rema►ks upon the London hells the author is more at home. This is a branch of his subject with which he seems thoroughly conversant, and he has told us much about Crockford's, and one or two minor hells, that we did not know before. Country readers, we take for granted, will read this portion of his work with avidity, more particularly as it is seasoned with much piquant anecdotage. . Nor have we any fault to find with his comments on the Metropolitan Press. In general they are tolerably correct, and penned in a frank and cordial spirit, though here and there errors occur which a little reflection would have rectified. In speaking of the theatres, the author states that the Londoners are a play-going set of folks—an observa tion the incorrectness of which is sufficiently denoted by the present critical condition of almost every thea trical speculation of the day. On the whole, we have been much amused with the " Great Metro polis." It is a readable work, full of matter, and of that sort in which almost every reader takes an interest. We subjoin an extract : " The history of Crockford is curious. His autobio graphy, nothing concealing and nothing extenuating, would be one of the most readable works which have appeared for many a day. He was originally a small fishmonger, without a penny in the world, in the neighbourhood of Temple Bar. The following copy of an account for fish, which appeared some years since in a book called Life in the West,' will give some idea both of the extent of his business and of the measure of his intimacy with the school master : " ' Mr. A-. " ' To William Crockford. a. d. " April 3 To pair of sowls 5 Sprats 0 3 6 3 vitens 12 7 red herrings 0 6 19 2 makerils 3 5. " The way in which he is said to have risen in the world is singular enough. Nature, it appears, has made him a first-rate mathematician in all that relates to money calcu lations. lam assured by those who know him, that the Member for Middlesex is a mere tyro to him in this respect. By some inward process—mental arithmetic, I believe, is the phrase, though it is doubtful if Mr. Crockford knows what is meant by mental'—by some inward process, he can calculate, provided there be large stakes in the field, with an almost absolute certainty, what are to be the re sults in certain games. Having early discovered that he possessed this most useful gift, he began, while yet a fish monger in a small way, to pay nightly visits, when the day's business was over, to a low hell in King's-place, in the neighbourhood of Pall-mall. Here he commenced his ca reer as a gambler by risking a few shillings at English hazard. Finding himself almost invariably successful, he was in the habit of proceeding next morning to Billings gate, when be laid in a stock of sowls' (soles), flat-fish, &c. &c. for the day. He was gradually enabled to carry on his business to greater advantage and on a more extensive scale ; while his increased profits enabled him to bet at the den referred to much more heavily than his limited resources would, in the first instance, admit of. His first great bet, however, was not in a gaming -house. The author of the work from which I have copied the account for sowls' and vitens,' and 4 makerils,' says, that his first step of any particular note to his present elevation was taking immense long odds upon an out' horse, which he did upon private information, given to him by a jockey, that it was to win.' Soon after this, Crockford purchased, for 1001., the fourth share of a gambling-bank, at No. .5, King-street, St. James's. The proprietors of the hell had previously quar relled, and certain extraordinary disclosures were the con sequence. Amongst other startling facts, it appeared, that though the den was not of any great note, the system of plunder had been carried on in it on such an extensive scale, that in one night the players were pigeoned' to the tune of 2,0001. One of the proprietors being afraid that on this disclosure proceedings might be instituted against them, appropriated to himself his share of the 2,000/., and then disposed of his interest in the concern, for the above mentioned sum of 1001., to Crockford. The three other partners were persons of the names of Abbott, Austen, and Holdsworth. " Having amassed a great deal of money at 5, King street, Crockford quitted the business' there, and opened a hell, with three other person, in 81, Piccadilly, for play ing French hazard. In one season, according to the state ment of a gentleman who lost to a very considerable amount, the four proprietors must have divided amongst them the sum of 200,0001., being 50,000/. to each. That, however, was the most successful season ever known. In point of real profit it far exceeds anything realized by the present princely establishment, because the expenses of keeping up the latter are ten times as great as were those of the former. At this place loaded dice were discovered, as I shall afterwards mention more particularly. Here again a quarrel took place among the partners about the division of the plunder, and the establishment was conse quently broken up. Crockford then purchased the house No. 50, St. James's-street, but finding it too small for the crowds of noblemen and gentlemen who frequented it, he purchased 51, and subsequently 52 ; when, in 1825, lie pulled the three houses down, and erected on their site the present magnificent edifice." WORDSWORTH'S POEMS. Vol. 1. Moxon, London, 1836. This work is to be completed in Six Volumes, and will, we suppose, include the " Excursion," and the last published ♦olume " Yarrow Revisited "—one of the most characteristic of all Mr. Wordsworth's pro ductions. The book is got up with great neatness. and is embellished with a portrait of the author. We have no doubt that the speculation will be a success ful one. THE TOURIST IN SPAIN. Jennings, London, 1,836. The subject of this Annual is well chosen, for all eyes are at present, turned towards Spain, in consequence of the civil war now raging there, which threatens, we fear, to be of far longer duration than could have been anticipated some months since. With these matters, however, Mr. Roscoe does not meddle : he makes few or no allusions to the two great contending parties of Carlists and Christinos, but contents himself with de scribing, in a spirited, graphic style, the impression made on him by the scenery, public buildings, &c., of Spain. In his account of the far-famed Escurial— _~ once the pride of the Spanish monarchs, and intendeL as a rival, " and something more" to V e rsailles- 1 r is most minute and elaborate ; and, as is invariably the case when a traveller's expectations have been h i g hl y e raised, confesses to no little disappointment. ct The general body of the edifice (he says) is much too bio. lo h wl ; the towers, spires, and domes, in comparison too c, and accordingly their union, instead of producing one grand piecew hole,o instinct faroh itweci t t o h ra l l -iar givespnalotolny,,voriltastelessly put together." The beauty of the site , how ever, has not, he thinks, been overrated —bu t is not properly appreciated, till one has stro lled leisurely through the grounds, and studied f rom the idea of a every point of view, the character of the encircling landscapes. The Roman Aqueduct at Segovia is another subject on which Mr. Roscoe expatiates at length ; and equally animated is he in his sketch of the celebrated " Fontarabia," well known in a hun dred old Spanish legends and ballads, as the place where " Charlemagne and all his peerage fell," as Milton says, in one of the most picturesque passages of his great epic. One great recommendation of gr. Roscoe as a traveller is his restless and inquisitive spirit, to satisfy which he is willing to put up with any inconvenience, and submit w ith ou t a m urmur to the sorriest accommodation. Bein g s o m e thing incre dulous on the subject of oth er t our i s t s ' d e scriptions , especially where they are w a r m i n p ra i se o f any parti cular building, or city or lands ca p e , h e v i s it s the spot , and judges for himself—a most commen d a bl e practice , and which, combined with the cheerful, dispassionate character of his writing, gives his volume all the appear' ance of freshness and originality. The embellishments are, for the most part from designs supplied by Roberts, who we need not say, is, in his sketches of monastic and cathedral structures—in which Spain abounds--- one of the most accomplished artists of the day. There is a grandeur and massiveness in his architectural illustrations worthy of all praise. They are not so picturesque, neither do they fill the imagination so completely as Martin's, but there is a literalness- 4 matter-of-fact-ness—and an air of reality about them, which in their way are equally impressive. The " High Altar in the Church of St. Isidro, Madrid," is remarkable for the careful finish of its details, with which the picture is crowded. The richly and vari ously carved ceilings, with their magnificent columnar supporters—the crucifix in the back-ground—the golden candelabra in front—the hushed groupes pros trating themselves in prayer before the image of the Virgin--all these points are worked up with consum mate skill, and, united, produce a very strikinrc. fac t ' The " Pass of P ancorvo " i s i n a totally striking style, but executed with equal diligence. It is a view, of a narrow m o u n t a i n -p ass , surroun d e d b y clif f s a nd crags of the wildest and most grotesque form. Th e scene is one of utter desolation, and though on a fa r grander scale, bears no slight resemblance to some parts of the Undercliff at the back of the Isle of Wigh t. This landscape is also by Roberts, and is well err graved by Varrall. The tour through the remaining portions of Spain will be completed in next yea r's Annual. JOHNSON'S ECONOMY OF 1-lEALTIL Highley, London, 1 83 P, There is a great deal of good se..nse, manifestly th e result of long practical experience, on the part af t he author, Dr. Johnson, within the boards of this *slend er octavo. The rules laid down for the pretervati °l : of health are simpl e an d i nte lli g ibl e, and in no respe ct defaced by enigmatical technicalities. TORY OF PARTY.--VoL. I. ET GEORGE TVINGROPE COOKE, ES Q. London, Macrone, 1836. We anticipate for this work, when completed, $ place among the standard literature of t h e country ' The author, a bar r i s t er o f hi g h l egal reputation, i s al ready favourably known to the ri:.ading public as th e writer of " Lord Bolingbroke's Memoirs," ana t he compiler of the " Life and Times of the Earl Shafte s : bury ;" but we predict that posterity will co,,inect In s name with his hi s t or y o f t h e two great fa ctions who have so l ong a lt ernate l y swaye d the political destinie s of this kingdom. But greatly as we 'admire the came dour, the i n d us t r y, an d the accurwcy which perv ade t almost ever y p age o f t hi s first volume, we owe it t° ourselves, the public, and the o.uthor, to ac knowle%, that the design of the work appears to us greatly suP st rior to th e execut i on . Th ough the author is ahlteof always ju s t i n hi s conc l us i ons as to the operation" to particular m easures , an d a l t h oug h h e is 4;aref' lli ri a point out t h e connec ti on b etween passing, eve nts a the predo m i nance o f one or ot h er of ti'ie Whig ap t e Tory factions i n th e C ounc il s o f t h e S avere i gn ; /via does he not sufficiently con t rast t h e pos,ver o f the tele factions at the commencement of eve L T new str i ir —present, with vi v id i n di v id ua l di stinctness , respective leaders an d c h amp i ons i n and out 01 p tar,i‘ to liament—and wh a t i s o f st ill greater interest, , se e s by ascertain the peculi ar cons t ruct i on o f the - 1 0-it- te a which States men i n o pp os iti on so firmly 0 0e: hi themselves with p ar ti es ou t o f d oors , and - the a et t ., oo , which a sm a ll m i nor i t y contr i ve d to b a fll ,o the &sily, and frust ra t e th e p o li c y, o f an overw h e ' jming Inniarsty backed by th e w h o l e power o f t h e C r own. The i for elusions, though historically correct,. are too gr ee tse lc the premis e s. W e are to ld that certain even ts fl se e place ; we are t aug h t to ascribe them to t he i lla ' i , --e er clo over the p eo pl e , or at C ourt, of certain Noble '-- ' professing Whig or Tory principles ; bui ; we a re 13 :11 tially left in the dark as to the agency by - and thre -a u i :r. which suc h L or d s exercised such influence' ersl; Wingrov e C oo k e ' s (c History of Party" is too g ea es tll and the au th or h as e i t h er not made himself suff iel or writers' acquaint e d w ith t h e wor k s o f contemporary where he has unwarranta bl y set as i de the i r authority' cite it is it was of th e utmost i mportance to h av e cit e 00 proof of the correctness of his own statements' Sir Wrani il i quotes B urne t, D a l rymp l e , R oger N ort h, at a e.• Temple, and Ellis' Letters ; but by some s trati ' of, cident, or s till s t ranger d es i gn , he 'amts all me nti on and ref e r ence t o , t h e wor k s o f D an i e l De Feemote author whose multifarious writi.ngs have light upon the history of faction during the re t o an d Mary , . be d Charles 11., James 11., William andflouris`"- Anne, than those of all the public writers who __ ess ion from the period of the Restoration, till the acc%g to P ee of the House of Brunswick. We cannot suli ii.kno n Cooke's silence with respect to such asy for his tempt j t he writer as De Foe to proceed from a con temp a tO the settle° authority, inasmuch as we find him r throwno.ns of Elkana a s scurrilous tracts of L'Estrange, inferior Re • Leslie, and Harris—men every way of t he A writers to the celebrated author bo de an d tw o fifths 2 le I ts view, the True Born Englishman, ey e - all t hese , D e and eight other works, of which nearly four comments upon passing events, an d of Pa tt Y onot having reference solely to the influence correct ac,f - a ud Foe was the first author who and Tory' have of the origin of the terms'At he Tula e n i. had Mr. Cooke referred to his pages, I, a d erl 'S absurd DP spared himself the quotation of Burne tt . a tions• f o tion of the first of these factious denonnn godfather , - the e of Titus Oates, as De Foe tells us, was the the Tories, and he relates the occasion with As the re ' s ' c i e s ° :: t , i , to c t he As to ,I quaint humour, which would a te a m ye p a d for spac e ' Q not 11 ~ passage, were we not pressecibWhig original meaning of the word Wh d ig o , n ‘‘i, butt, t Irish or Scotch labourer in Lon 5 0ur ,431p, _,,. j ell, know that it bee: f 0 ; A , (1 1 ` O ,/ has milk--that is, milk which to stan d acted 1 4 1° I s ote , i or e• or two after the butter has ne a ris ix is only used to describe "liquor" l,..ailes • and which has been allowed bee cot , i it. De Foe calls it a one of the worst in the whole catal's-- a d